All posts tagged "Christianity"
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
May 13, 2025Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Religion
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Religion
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
January 27, 2025Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
Art & Design
Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries — Jewish Museum of New York
November 9, 2024To look at one of the treasures on display in this wonderful exhibit, the Kennicott Bible,...
Books
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
Art & Design
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
July 15, 2024The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
Religion
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
June 8, 2024After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...